Today, I am much gratified to report that I now have a box packed up to send off to Wrap-a-Smile to be donated to children having cleft lip/palate surgery around the world. I have been talking about finishing the last quilts to fill this box for several weeks and it’s finally done! These are the five quilts in the box:
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| 4 to 16 Patch (don't know why I called it 4 to 9 Patch before!) |
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| Cats in the Tulips |
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| Scrappy Dora Mystery Quilt |
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| Tam's Patch in Novelties |
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| Totally Scrappy (from blocks won in a block swap) |
And, today is once again Tolkien Reading Day. I am especially fond of the Hobbits that J. R. R. Tolkien wrote about in his various books, including in “The Hobbit” and the trilogy series “The Lord of the Rings”. Tolkien depicted Hobbits as fond of a bucolic life of farming, eating and socializing – now doesn’t that sound wonderful?!
Although they much preferred their unadventurous lifestyle, you can read about how the Hobbits rose to the occasion with feats of incredible courage when needed to defend their homes and way of life. Hobbits were said to be between 2 and 4 feet tall, dressing in bright colors, favoring yellow and green, and usually shy. Tolkien himself said, “I am in fact a hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands;…”. I think that pretty much sums up me and my quilting hobby, too!
You can read more about this author at: www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html
Or maybe check out this site to see this REAL hobbit house in Wales
It is very interesting … I would love to visit it.
3 comments:
I love them all, but I think my fave is the totally scrappy. Beautiful! Love that Hobbit house, too. But don't know if I could live there with 2 kids. Kinda small!
Fun quilts there Kathy! It's always so very interesting to see how different fabrics and patterns make such happy quilts. Great job!
Love the quilts, Kathy! The scrappy ones really 'stretched' you, yes?
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